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Below the Belt

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A waitress (Regina Baff) trains with a mat veteran (Mildred Burke) and becomes a pro wrestler called the Mexican Spitfire.
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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Enjoyable despite its slightness. Rated: B- May 22, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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Demented N Brilliant movie that acutely used real wrestlers. (Not all the cast) just a road trip about lady wrestlers trying to make it big but not getting the brake they need, mid life crises kick in too as some of the women are getting on, a steller cast who a lot went on to big things except the main star, Mildred Burke was the trainer in the movie spurised they did not get the Fabulous Moolah but the plot would have to be very different if the girls got into her camp! Vice Dark side of the ring done a documentary on her it was brilliant Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/06/23 Full Review Audience Member A great unglamorous look at pro wrestling. Up there with BLOOD AND GUTS. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member A waitress decides to become a professional wrestler. Yep, it's as dumb as it sounds, but it's quite entertaining on an ironic level. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member If John Waters directed a movie about women's pro-wrestling, this would have been it. What the hell ever happened to K.C. Townsend? Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Better then you might think. But there is a lot of sub par music to make up for the lack of dialog Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Mostly made in 74 but not released until 80 (to cash in on the growing wrestling craze)Below the Belt benefits from having a couple of noticeable cast members in Dolph (Gimme A Break) Sweet & Shirley (The Honeymoon Killers) Stoler. In fact Dolph Sweet has such an excellent scene were he's drunk before a match & razors himself it rivals the power of The Wrestler. Unfortunately Below the Belt is a little short of scenes like this & is padded w/ music montages & footage of pro wrestling w/ the likes of Bruno Sammartino (which I like but doesn't match very well w/ the midget & womens wrestling that is served up for the remainder). Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A waitress (Regina Baff) trains with a mat veteran (Mildred Burke) and becomes a pro wrestler called the Mexican Spitfire.
Director
Robert Fowler
Producer
Robert Fowler
Screenwriter
Robert Fowler, Sherry Sonnett
Production Co
Aberdeen, Tom-Mi Productions, RLF
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 16, 2008
Runtime
1h 31m
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